About time...it took only 1 billion junk email messages
AOL has filed lawsuits in the US District Court in Alexandria, VA seeking damages of more than $10 million after receiving more than 8 million individual spam complaints from its subscribers according to this AP story in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required):
America Online has filed five federal lawsuits targeting spammers it accuses of sending about one billion junk e-mail messages promoting mortgages, steroids and pornography to its subscribers.
...Individuals named in the lawsuits were Michael Levesque of Issaquah, Wash., and George A. Moore Jr. of Linthicum, Md. Their numbers were unlisted, and registration records for their domain names had false phone numbers. Most of the defendants are "John Doe," meaning AOL couldn't immediately determine their identities. However, filing the lawsuits gives AOL additional authority to subpoena service providers and others to try to track down the spammers.